After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

The second day of the first lunar month.

It's an auspicious day, and everything goes well.

The Great Elder accepted a disciple. It was not very formal. He just drank a cup of tea as a simple apprenticeship ceremony. The new disciple was a little girl next to Nan Yin. She was quiet, didn't talk much, and looked young and steady.

They all said that Nan Yin was worthy of being the person with the best relationship with Yuan Ge. He was close to the two elders on weekdays, so he naturally knew how to coax them. He brought two girls, one coaxed Feng Qingtan, and the other coaxed Yuan Junfeng. The one who had said before that he would not teach now accepted a medicine boy, and he was quite dedicated to cultivating a closed disciple. The great elder who had been sitting alone in a daze every day before also started to get busy. It was said that he would take his little apprentice to climb the mountain to practice martial arts when he had nothing to do - practicing basic skills.

Such a big girl is often seen as a four or five-year-old child, doing horse stance in the morning.

It's a bit out of place, but also quite interesting.

As for Nan Yin, he became the idle servant who ran errands for everyone and served tea and water. After finishing the work in the medicine garden, he would busy himself with the great elder. Occasionally, when he had time, he would go to sit in Yuan Ge's yard and sit there for half the night. Then he would go to talk and chat with the other two elders. However, they were not familiar with each other and had not seen each other for many years, so they really had no topics to talk about. As they talked, they naturally turned to the topic of Yuan Ge, and most of them talked about old things. Soon, they naturally turned to Yuan Ge's secret room.

It's no secret that Yuan Ge has a secret room, and the things in her secret room are not secrets either. Anyway, no one can enter the secret room.

Young Master Nanyin seemed a little unconvinced about this. He asked several times in succession. Even after getting a definite answer, he still didn't believe it. He kept muttering to himself, "How could it be? How could it be? What about those things that appeared in Shengjing City... I thought they were leaked out from here... I seemed to have seen Jin Su, the maid next to Yuan Ge. Elder, do you remember her? Do you know where the maid went after Yuan Ge left?"

To this, both elders said they did not know.

The third elder's attitude was even colder. When he heard the name "Jinsu", he even thought for a while before saying expressionlessly, "The world is so big. Once you descend from Zhixuan Mountain, who knows where the world is."

The second elder was much more enthusiastic, "Oh! You mean that girl? I heard that she went down the mountain. Later, I dismissed the servants in that courtyard. The master was gone, so why were a few servants guarding that courtyard? I didn't see Jin Su at that time. They said that the girl had been gone for several days. She left before even celebrating the seventh day of her old master's death. She was so heartless. We all saw how good Ge'er was to this maid... I heard that she was a prostitute before. Actors are really heartless!"

Zhuang Lichuan sighed to himself and asked Nan Yin, "Did that girl go to Shengjing City? I think she is ambitious, and sure enough, haha! What is she doing in Shengjing City? Is she still selling smiles?" After saying this, he laughed, which was his usual expression, like a mask worn firmly on his face, making it difficult for people to tell the truth from the falsehood in his words.

Nan Yin raised his eyelids to look at him, smiled suddenly, and lazily uttered two words, "Murder."

Zhuang Lichuan was stunned, and the smile on his face froze and cracked for a moment, "W-what?"

"She killed people in Shengjing City. When I saw her, she was just taken away by the government. I heard that she killed a lot of people..." Nan Yin stared at Zhuang Lichuan, always with a somewhat indecent smile on his face. When he was not smiling, he actually had a bit of imposing aura, but the aura disappeared in a flash, and he smiled again, "I only glanced at her from a distance, and I felt that she looked a bit like her. I was wondering why this little girl's temperament changed so much after leaving Zhixuan Mountain. Maybe I was wrong!"

"Hey!" Zhuang Lichuan glanced at Nan Yin, shook his head, and sighed helplessly, "You kid, I was really scared by you! You must have seen it wrong. The maid has thin arms and legs. Although she has some ambitions in her heart, she can't kill anyone, and there are quite a few people... Just her? She has been spoiled by Yuan Ge and has difficulty killing a fish... What's wrong?"

He asked as he watched Nan Yin stand up and stamp his feet.

Nan Yin looked back at the bright sun and shrugged, "I've been talking to you for a long time and forgot the time... The teacher asked me to dry the herbs today. The old man has been in a bad mood recently. If I go too late, he will nag me. I'll leave first!"

Zhuang Lichuan stood up and followed him, "You're leaving now? I have a jar of good wine here, and I wanted to invite you to dinner! How about you come over tomorrow for dinner, and we can drink together? After you left Zhixuan Mountain, I can't even find a good opponent to drink with, so let's do it tomorrow! Let's have a good chat, how about that?"

"Okay, please stay." Nan Yin accepted it happily, said goodbye and left quickly.

Zhuang Lichuan watched Nan Yin leave. The mask-like smile on his face gradually faded away. He slowly opened his squinting eyes and said to the follower who was walking by, "Go check it out. What's going on?"

The attendant bowed his head and said, "Yes."

"Also, if that guy is really from Shengjing, why hasn't there been any news from Shengjing since he's been here for so long?" Zhuang Lichuan straightened his back which had been bent a little. "Something must have gone wrong. You should be careful and don't involve us... If anything goes wrong, just blame it on that dead Yuan Ge. It's best to blame her maid for the crime."

"Yes." The follower thought for a moment and said, "Then, about Master Nanyin..."

Zhuang Lichuan pondered for a moment and murmured, "That boy is not simple. He usually laughs and jokes, but he is actually more cunning than anyone else. I heard that he often goes there and talks nonsense. He might also be planning to get the secret room... Send someone to keep an eye on him, don't let him really enter the secret room and discover our secret. I have an appointment with him for a drink tomorrow, and I will try to get something out of him then... He came from Shengjing and saw Jin Su. Ha, I'm afraid this boy has other purposes for this trip!"

"Yes."

……

The news came faster than expected. In just half a day, the followers who were coming down the mountain received news from Shengjing that they were delayed because they encountered a severe snowstorm that had not been seen in years.

The news from Shengjing City was more detailed than that from Nanyin, but the ending was the same. After killing several people in a row, Jinsu teamed up with Zuihuanlou to kidnap Wen Qian, the daughter of Minister Wen and the third wife of the Kejing Marquis. She has now been captured by the government and sentenced to immediate execution.

"Wen Qian..." Zhuang Lichuan read the name indifferently, and handed the letter back to the follower, "Burn it."

At the same time, another letter also from Shengjing City was sent to Zhi Xuanshan.